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When water freezes it expands. This process creates pressure inside of the rock, which causes it to burst open from the inside.
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How does frost wedging break apart rocks?
Water from frost or rain gets between cracks on a rock. At night this water freezing and expands. The expansion of the water in the cracks causes the rock to break little by little. This cycle is repeated many times.
How does a sudden change in temperature break up rock?
in cold countries,water freezes inside cracks of rocks,expands,and causes rocks to break.
How water break rocks?
The water can get inside and then freeze which in turn cracks the rocks open.
How does the freezing and thawing of water affect a rock?
Water has the unusal property of expanding, when frozen into ice. Water that seeps into cracks and then freezes, exerts tremendous pressure, which forces the crack open. During a thaw the loose parts will fall out.
How do you break a marble?
Water and freezing/cold weather can make rocks break. The water makes the rocks break when it goes into the rock cracks. When the weather gets cold/freezing the water expands and the rock breaks. Or with a really good hammer. LOL:P
Freezing and thawing cause rocks to break because the volume of ice is?
When water in little fractures or cracks in a rock freezes, and since water expands when it freezes, it causes the crack to enlarge a little bit. The cycle of this happening over and over until the cracks are big enough to split the rock apart is Frost Wedging.
How does freezing water cause rocks to weathering?
Water goes into small cracks in the rocks and then freezes. Water expands as it freezes and the expansion pushes outwards on the crack in the rock making it bigger. Eventually this process causes the rock to crack and flake apart
How would a frozen paintball hit a oak tree?
because freezing causes brittleness, it would break.
How rocks from a cliff can be broken down to become sand?
Erosion is the main force that acts on rocks to break them down into sand. Water getting into cracks, freezing and expanding also helps to break down rocks.
Does temperature bellow freezing point cause rock to break?
Rocks are already frozen (unless it is molten lava). Otherwise mountains would simply be piles of dust. Water freezing in cracks or variations in the rock can cause breaking.
What causes a rock to split?
Temperatures such as freezing and thawing water causes the rock to split. Also, if something causes it to shift position and fall on another rock, it may break up.
How can you break a finge?
twist it until it cracks
